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A computer method and system for interacting with a containee object contained within a container object. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the container object has a container application with a container window environment that has container resources for interacting with the con

A computer method and system for interacting with a containee object contained within a container object. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the container object has a container application with a container window environment that has container resources for interacting with the container object. The containee object has a server application with a server window environment with server resources for interacting with the containee object. The method of the present invention displays the container window environment on a display device. A user then selects the containee object. In response to selecting the containee object, the method integrates a plurality of the server resources with the displayed container window environment. When a user then selects a server resource, the method invokes the server application to process the server resource selection. Conversely, when a user selects a container resource, the method invokes the container application to process the container resource selection.

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[ We claim:] [1.] A method in a computer system for activating a containee object contained within a container object, the computer system having a window system for displaying windows and for receiving user input, the computer system having an indicator for choosing an object, the container having

[ We claim:] [1.] A method in a computer system for activating a containee object contained within a container object, the computer system having a window system for displaying windows and for receiving user input, the computer system having an indicator for choosing an object, the container having a container application with a container window environment for interacting with the container object, the containee object having a server application with server resources for interacting with the containee object, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of:displaying the container window environment;displaying the containee object within the displayed container window environment;in response to a user moving the indicator over the display containee object, under control of the window system sending notification that the user has moved the indicator over the displayed containee object directly to the server application; andin response to the user indicating an action to be performed on the containee object, integrating the server resources of the server application into the displayed container window environment such that, when a user selects a server resource from amongst the integrated server resources, the server application processes the server resources selection.